So check this out.  I got a call a while back from my friend Daley asking me if I cared if someone used our family picture for a website.  He told me it was a church in Daveport, Iowa and they thought we looked like an awesome, hot, amazing, put together family.  Okay, they left off the “awesome, hot, amazing, put together” part and said we looked like a “real” family.  I’ll take it.

So last night I got this email from Daley saying “Check It”.  So I did.  Yep there’s us, right there on the front of the Rock Church Of The Quad Cities website.  Kinda cool huh?  

Anyone here live around there?

So, you want to hear a funny story? The other day I was getting my camera ready for our trip to Michigan so I could take pictures at my friend Matt’s wedding. Now, that doesn’t seem like a big deal, but to me that’s a big deal. Taking pictures at a friends wedding, or more specifically “being the photographer” at a friends wedding is a little intimidating. Especially when you don’t even remotely consider yourself a photographer. So anyway, I’m getting everything ready and I borrowed a flash from my neighbor so I would look a little more professional even if I didn’t use it. I don’t really even know how to use a flash properly and so I decided that I needed to play around with it a little before I went and took pictures of the most important day of my friends life.

I started messing with the different settings on the flash and the test pictures of the kids were looking pretty good, but still a little dark and grainy.  I adjusted and adjusted past the point of knowing what I adjusted and all of the sudden every picture that I took was either completely white with the flash, or completely black without.  Nothing I did changed the fact that my camera was now on a setting that jacked up every single picture.  I started to panic after about an hour and a half of pushing buttons and turning knobs with no result.  Remember when I said I didn’t consider myself a photographer?  Well, this is why.  I knew what I needed to do.  Call Daley. 

Obviously Daley knows what he is doing when it comes to photography and obviously I didn’t so he was kind enough to walk me through some of the basics of lighting.  He also fixed my camera.  Which saved my butt.  

Most of you remember a few weeks back when Daley was in town and took our family pictures.  Well, that was the first time I met Daley in person and we had a great time hanging out.  He was great with the kids, hip on the music scene and just a cool hang.  I think he’s in Indiana or something right now, but if you haven’t checked out his photography, you probably should.  It’s pretty amazing.  

You know what to do.

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I know I have already posted a few pictures, but here are some of the other pictures that Daley took the other day.  Mostly this is for our families and friends that we don’t get to see much so I promise this is the last time I will post them.  And besides, this is my blog and these pictures are awesome so you have to look at them again.  Here goes.  Click on the picture to see it bigger.  

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Daley is a magician…though, my wife is that hot in real life too.

More photos to come.

Well, check this junk out! It’s an honor.